Lost Quotes

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, well, I don't have a book, and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.